I’m still quite amazed by this, but apparently Darron Schall is working on a VNC client implemented in Flash and Flex. Granted there has been a Java applet to do the same thing for quite awhile, but the power that this could give an enterprise would be quite amazing!
For instance, one could write some sort of ColdFusion app for administering and monitoring servers, but it would only display servers available to the roles which a logged-in user belonged to (via LDAP/Active Directory integration), as well as store metadata about each server, the applications which were on it, etc. You could also write various “probes” for each server which could also poll for CPU utilization as well as custom application probes and have a fully unified monitoring and management platform which was all web based.
Now we just need a Flash/Flex based telnet or SSH client for routers and Unix servers without any sort of window manager (or maybe such a client already exists)…
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